When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.

Steer clear of negativity and set boundaries so that when people bring it on, you can engage your force-field to deflect their distracting energy.

Witchcraft is a path of personal freedom.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Be not imitator freshly act thy part Through this world be thou an independent ranger Better is the faith that springeth from thy heart Than a better faith belonging to a stranger.

Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science